The VENONA Documents, August 1943
These are the scanned-in images of the VENONA documents which have been
declassified up to this point that are from the month of August 1943.
- Covername LETS. (Release Four)
- GRU reports about William Malisoff, a KGB agent. He can recommend reliable people for a position at the University of Chicago apparently to replace the wife of unidentified cover name AESCULAPIUS. (Release Four)
- Aircraft production in U.S. (Release Four)
- Trawlers and sub-chasers. (Release Four)
- U.S. furnishes information about Finland. (Release Four)
- Information about the U.S. and U.K. Board of Economic Warfare. (Release Four)
- An accounting of radio transmitters and receivers. Mention of MOK's receiver. (Release Four)
- Cessation of contact with an unreliable source, the KGB has been warned. (Release Four)
- U.S. shipments to Soviet Union. (Release Four)
- U. S. shipments and ship losses. (Release Four)
- The Illegal SALLY. (Release Four)
- Long report of discussions with the editor of "Newsweek" magazine re: State Department position on various topics. (Release Four)
- Material received from covername THORNTON. (Release Four)
- Covername THORNTON. (Release Four)
- Mostly unrecovered. References U.S. State Department (Release Two)
- Covername LETTS. (Release Four)
- The U.S. Director of Naval Intelligence explains why Soviet crews are being interrogated and ships searched. (Release Four)
- The cipher clerk repeats part of a garbled message. (Release Four)
- GRU agent Thomas Babin reports information he obtained from Lt. George S. Vuchinich of OSS. Mention of information from two unidentified GRU sources. (Release Four)
- Information about and from Daniel A. Zaret, an explosives expert who had been with the Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War. Mention of agent Joseph Bernstein. (Release Four)
- A list of covernames for various Naval GRU agents. (Release Four)
- KGB Agent in place in Canadian Parliament (Release One)
- GRU agent Thomas Babin reports shipping information. (Release Four)
- Travel of wives of Naval GRU officers. (Release Four)
- Newly built Soviet ships to train off Key West. (Release Four)
- Movement of new Soviet ships along U.S. Gulf coast. (Release Four)
- Travel of wives of Naval GRU officers. (Release Four)
- Newly built Soviet ships to train off Key West. (Release Four)
- Movement of new Soviet ships along U.S. Gulf coast. (Release Four)
- Reissue (T331) (A more complete version of documents previously released in first VENONA release on 10 July 1995) (Release 6)
- Courier procedures, security of covernames. (Release Four)
- Shipment of fuel; a care package for home. (Release Four)
- An important espionage message - GRU Naval agent Eugene Coleman has been in contact with a number of U.S. communists employed in high tech defense establishments. (Release Four)
- Lend - Lease information. (Release Four)
- More Lend - Lease information. (Release Four)
- The Illegal SALLY finally lands in San Francisco. (Release Four)
- GRU agent Joseph M. Bernstein reports information about China and the USSR. Agent Thomas A. Bisson one of his sources. GRU agent Leonard Mins reports about Russian Division of OSS. (Release Four)
- Leonard Mins of OSS having problems with a loyalty hearing. Mins recommends to GRU the Communist Party member Isadore Steinberg, who can be a source of secret War Department materials. Mention of Josephine Truslow Adams. (Release Four)
- Unidentified covername FARLEY reports about U.S. aircraft production and shipments. (Release Four)
- Unidentified source OPPEN reports about U.S. aircraft cannon. (Release Four)
- Information from GRU agent Thomas Babin (covername BREME). (Release Four)
- Unidentified source OPPEN reports about U.S. aircraft cannon. (Release Four)
- Information from GRU agent Thomas Babin (covername BREME). (Release Four)
- Instructions and enquiries concerning Nakarovich ("UCN 44"), Soldatov ("ALEKSEJ") and certain probationers (1943) (Release Five)
- Instructions on setting up illegal residencies (1943) (Release Five)
- GRU agent Leonard Mins reports on U.S. military matters. He also reports about a Communist Party member at a university in Nashville. (Release Four)
- Agents with access to OSS Intelligence Bulletins. (Release Four)
- Free Germany Committee (Release Two)
- Reissue- "MARS","KUMA","CHEN";Free Germany Committee (1943) (A more complete version of documents previously released in second venona release on 10 Oct 1995) (Release 6)
- KVANT's information on ENORMOUS (Release One)
- Mostly unrecovered. References Moses Todrin (Release Two)
- Guns for Soviet merchant ships. (Release Four)
- Movement of Naval GRU offices. (Release Four)
- Mostly unrecovered. Friend of Mrs. Roosevelt identified (Release Two)
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